more missives

Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen
August 24

Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are two people who work together as one artistic entity. They've been making project-based artwork together since 2009.

For Social Forms, their project more missives was first envisioned as a series of experimental publications in brick form distributed across the venues of the biennial. Approaching the brick as a form of public speech and a weapon of the people, they've created small crowds of these heavy rectangles for fun, for contemplation, and for future use. Each brick is inscribed with text or otherwise carries a message, and they will be a recurring form, carefully placed at the various venues. 

According to Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, “A loose brick almost always has multiple lives. A brick is a unit, a tool, an anchor. A brick is an idea, heavy in your hand. A brick is a message punctuated by the sound of glass. A brick is for commemoration, for barricades and garden beds. A brick is to protect you from the breath of wolves. A brick is to break and build something new.”

Viewable at each Social Forms venue